January PD Workshops
Wednesday, January 15th
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Kick off the Spring Semester with Jean!
Facilitator: Dr. Jean Svacina
11:30 - 12:30 PM
Arts & Humanities, English/World Languages, and Social Science/Teacher Education divisions will meet as a group.
12:30 - 3:00 PM
Facilitator: Valerie Lash
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Introducing active learning strategies used in nursing courses. Use of gaming method (Kahoot, escape room) and role play will be discussed.
Facilitator: Vijaya Ramakrishnan
5:30 - 6:30 PM
You received your IDEA course evaluation feedback, but now what? What is a “good” score? What’s the difference between raw and average? How can you best use this information? Join us online at http://howardcc.adobeconnect.com/idea/ for this brief session on how to access and interpret your IDEA feedback.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin & Mike Stein
Thursday, January 16th
9:00 - 10:30 AM
In this session, faculty who teach a course that fulfills the institution's Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) goal will review together specific language of the CCT rubric that is used to score assignments. During this session, faculty will begin to develop a shared understanding of how students demonstrate mastery of each objective and give thought to opportunities for clarifications. This session is open to full and part-time faculty.
Facilitator: Deb Greenberg
9:30 - 1:00 PM
Facilitator: Patti Turner
9:30 - 1:00 PM
Facilitator: Sharon Schmickley
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Required for Social Sciences/Teacher Education faculty, adjunct faculty.
In these breakout sessions, department faculty and adjunct faculty will be instructed on updated curriculum; namely the newly developed shared assignments and how they are aligned to the new Gen Ed categories for FY21.
Facilitator: Laura Cripps
Friday, January 17th
9:00 - 10:30 AM
In this session, faculty who teach a course that fulfills the institution's Global Competency (GC) goal will review together specific language of the GC rubric that is used to score assignments. During this session, faculty will begin to develop a shared understanding of how students demonstrate mastery of each objective and give thought to opportunities for clarifications. This session is open to full and part-time faculty.
Facilitator: Deb Greenberg
11:00 - 12:30 PM
Online faculty must attend ONE of the online faculty meetings scheduled on January 17, 24, or 25.
We will discuss some of the big developments affecting online courses like the new online proctoring tool and the coming launch of online programs. Then we will look at the ways that we can use Canvas to identify students who may be struggling and reach out to them quickly and easily. You will learn about New Analytics and share with each other some tips and tricks for keeping online students engaged and on track. Please RSVP to elearning@howardcc.edu by January 14th.
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers
11:00 - 1:30 PM
Facilitator: Laura Cripps
Saturday, January 25th
Adjunct Institute
8:30 - 9:00 AM
All are welcome for breakfast!
Register for workshops on MyHCC to earn professional development credit.
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Designed for newer adjuncts, this interactive session will answer your questions about a variety of essential administrative tasks such as: accessing online resources to submit grades, communicating with students, recording lectures, viewing rosters, viewing classroom images, registering for professional development, and more.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin
Recommended for New Faculty 
Work in groups to assure that your assignments are set up clearly, your modules make sense, and discover an online active learning strategy you can use this semester. You will be on the road to success in no time! Returning faculty only. Seats limited to 20, first come basis. Must have content in a Canvas site (from this or a previous semester).
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers, Jamie Bourne, & Maureen Martin
Recommended for Returning Faculty
Each semester faculty report that reaching ALL students can be difficult. Students with defined and undefined special needs and classroom behaviors can provide an opportunity to consider new strategies to enhance teaching and encourage a positive classroom environment. In this hands-on workshop, participants will identify contributors to classroom behaviors that are challenging and practice research-based strategies to address these behaviors.
Facilitator: Helen Rose & Mike Stein
Recommended for Returning Faculty
10:40 - 12:00 PM
Participants will gain concrete strategies to amplify positive classroom behaviors, build a community of learners and set the stage for active student-centered learning. In this session, we will try at least 5 different strategies that can be used in the very first class session to enhance classroom community. Participants will leave with research-based information on the role of faculty-student interaction; how to introduce the course, and encourage student participation.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin
Recommended for New Faculty
Your old gradebook is going, going, gone on January 18th! The New Gradebook in Canvas offers improved accessibility, robust data organization and filtering, and helpful grade management options. Find out how to apply an automatic late deduction policy or keep students from seeing the grades of a particular assignment until you are finished grading the entire class. Using realistic scenarios with your colleagues, you will see how the choices you make will change the way New Gradebook operates.
Facilitator: Maureen Martin
Recommended for All Faculty
Kahoot!, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Canvas Quizzes, Outlook, MyHCC. Participants are invited to attend 1 or more of these hands-on lab stations to create quizzes and slides or learn time-saving productivity tips and tricks about HCC Email and MyHCC. Each station lasts about 20 minutes, and participants are welcome to drop in and out of stations to learn about the technologies that will be most useful for their teaching and productivity.
Facilitator: Various Faculty
Recommended for All Faculty
12:00 - 12:45 PM
Take a break, grab some food, network, and get recharged for the afternoon sessions!
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Online faculty must attend ONE of the online faculty meetings scheduled on January 17, 24, or 25.
We will discuss some of the big developments affecting online courses like the new online proctoring tool and the coming launch of online programs. Then we will look at the ways that we can use Canvas to identify students who may be struggling and reach out to them quickly and easily. You will learn about New Analytics and share with each other some tips and tricks for keeping online students engaged and on track.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/468789846
Meeting ID: 468 789 846
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Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Placing students at the center of the learning opportunity can improve participation and retention, but HOW can we do this? Participants will learn and share effective strategies to help students get up, reflect, and take an active role in their learning.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin & Mike Stein
Recommended for New Faculty
This hands-on session is designed for new users who want a simple overview of the Canvas learning management system. Find out HCC's Canvas requirements and how to fulfill them. You will learn how to post a syllabus on the syllabus page, how to create assignments to set up the gradebook, and how to publish your course. You will leave with resources that explain how to create an announcement, view people, import course content, see your course from "student view," and publish individual items.
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers & Maureen Martin
Recommended for All Faculty
Does the thought of standing in front of a classroom make you nervous? Are you wondering how to create engaging, active lessons that don't rely on a PowerPoint lecture? Crystal Walker and Rachel Adams, assistant professors of Communication Studies, will show you how to get rid of those butterflies, build classes that students look forward to attending, and teach with confidence.
Facilitator: Rachel Adams & Crystal Walker
Recommended for All Faculty
2:45 - 4:15 PM
In this workshop, faculty will receive essential hands-on instruction and practice the operation of various classroom technologies, such as the document camera, projector, and control systems.
Facilitator: Brandon Meiklejohn & Ben Fan
Recommended for New Faculty
Your old gradebook is going, going, gone on January 18th! The New Gradebook in Canvas offers improved accessibility, robust data organization and filtering, and helpful grade management options. Find out how to apply an automatic late deduction policy or keep students from seeing the grades of a particular assignment until you are finished grading the entire class. Using realistic scenarios with your colleagues, you will see how the choices you make will change the way New Gradebook operates.
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers
Recommended for All Faculty
Challenges with assigning Group Work to maximize student learning often leads to avoiding it as part of course design. This workshop provides participants with an opportunity to practice, review and develop research-based approaches to group work and includes ideas for assigning and assessing the group process to enhance student success.
Facilitator: Mike Stein
Recommended for All Faculty
4:30 - 5:00 PM
Stick around for a raffle drawing to win prizes and discuss take-aways from the day.
Tuesday, January 21st
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Do you know what it means to make your course more accessible? How do hearing-impaired students experience your course videos? How do low-vision students read your PowerPoints or documents? In this session, you will learn the definition of accessibility, and some related terminology, as well as strategies for making your course more accessible to benefit all learners.
Facilitator: Maureen Martin, Liz O'Hanlon, & Mari Wepprecht
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Drop in and learn by playing a variety of active learning techniques that you can implement in your very next class meeting. This gallery walk style of professional development lets you sample a number of different techniques including Jeopardy, Slap It, Trashcan Basketball, and more! Which ones are you already using, and which would you like to adopt?
Facilitator: Various Faculty
RSVP: asalih@howardcc.edu
Green Teaching/Green Offices will be discussed and questions answered. There will be a discussion to share insight from recent research as well as experiences of our Green Professors/Professionals. The second half of the session will be devoted to Green Teaching / Green Offices Certification for 2020. Green Teaching Coordinators include David Buck, Jacqueline Dzubak, and Abdelrahim Salih.
Facilitator: Abdelrahim Salih
During this session, faculty members and campus partners will learn about diversity & inclusion within the context of International Education and the value of collaborating across campus. The topic areas discussed will be supplemented by activities including scenarios, discussions and sharing of best practices.
Facilitator: Mary Allen
For members of ELECT only.
ELECT (the eLearning Engagement College-wide Team) has been working for the past three years to develop a quality online course review system that is specifically tailored to the needs of HCC faculty and students. This spring, the representatives from each division and functional area in the ELECT team will norm the eLATEd (eLearning Assessment Tool for Education) instrument. This training is the first of a series (others will take place during the ELECT meetings), that enables participants to apply evaluation criteria and formulate collegial feedback and recommendations. Starting next fall, all faculty will be invited to complete the training, certifying them to review courses for three years (compensation provided for each online review starting in Fall 2022).
Facilitator: Jamie Bourne
11:00 - 12:30 PM
Do you love the flexibility of teaching online but feel you lose some of your best strategies when you are behind the computer? Work with your colleagues to find ways that you can use some of your favorite in-class strategies in the online environment (for example, concept mapping, jigsaw, group notes/annotation, and more). Bring an online assignment or module (not a favorite) that you want to work on for this hands-on session. This session has a choose your own adventure design, so it is different each time. You will enjoy new content even if you attended a previous session.
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers & Maureen Martin
“The positive effect of interdependence on student achievement has already been well documented” (Scager, 2017, p2). “Managing group work effectively is REALLY challenging” (Faculty Member, 2019). This interactive workshop, led by Dr. Sarah Leupen from UMBC, will provide faculty with strategies to address common issues such as policies to create groups; handling relationships within a group; whether and how to change group membership; mitigating impact of dominant and introverted students; and leveraging the potential of group work.
Facilitator: Dr. Sarah Leupen, UMBC
PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive Quizizz, Canvas Quizzes, Outlook, Mediasite, Padlet, Google Forms. Participants are invited to attend 1 or more of these hands on lab stations to create quizzes, surveys, slides, videos, and collaboration tools, and learn time-saving productivity tips and tricks about Outlook and OneNote. Each station lasts about 20 minutes, and participants are welcome to drop in and out of stations to learn about the technologies that will be most useful for their teaching and productivity.
Facilitator: Various Faculty
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Culture is central to learning. It plays a role not only in communicating and receiving information, but also in shaping the thinking process of groups and individuals. Cultural Responsive Teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings, 1994). This session will focus on an interactive approach to exploring the importance of cultural competence and how it can be intentionally and systemically rooted in your instruction practices.
Facilitator: Zakia Johnson
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Suggested for Online Faculty.
How does HCC promote academic integrity when testing online students without requiring them to visit campus or other certified testing centers? HCC has expanded its partnership with Respondus to provide remote testing capabilities with the existing Lock Down Browser and the new Monitor, which now replaces Proctorio. In this hands-on session, you’ll gain experience using Respondus Monitor as a student, as well as learn how to set it up as the instructor. Upon completion of the session, you’ll have the tools and resources to set it up in your course and explain to students how to use the tools.
Facilitator: Jamie Bourne
This Q&A with HCC students from various populations, disciplines, and academic intentions has been a favorite of HCC faculty. Students will offer insights as to their experiences at HCC; their challenges and obstacles; and how faculty and staff support them. Faculty are encouraged to attend and ask questions.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin & HCC Students
Many instructors feel frustrated by their students’ lack of depth of understanding of the course readings. In this PD, we’ll discuss some of the reasons students struggle with comprehension and some possible strategies that instructors can use to encourage students to read and comprehend the assigned texts.
Facilitator: Karen Kyger
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Your old gradebook is going, going, gone on January 18th! The New Gradebook in Canvas offers improved accessibility, robust data organization and filtering, and helpful grade management options. Find out how to apply an automatic late deduction policy or keep students from seeing the grades of a particular assignment until you are finished grading the entire class. Using realistic scenarios with your colleagues, you will see how the choices you make will change the way New Gradebook operates.
Facilitator: Maureen Martin
Wednesday, January 22nd
9:30 - 11:00 AM
This session will be an interactive discussion of hybrid course teaching and learning strategies to increase student engagement. The session will also discuss how to translate course materials into an online environment to increase student engagement and assignment completion outside of face-to-face course meetings. Faculty are encouraged to bring a current face-to-face lesson or activity that they might want to redevelop for online.
Facilitator: Dr. Elisa Roberson & Dr. Jeff Moore
Are you a coordinator or chair who has Canvas admin rights? Come learn how to use your Admin button to find people and courses in a flash and pull reports of outcomes, at risk students, and unpublished courses in your sub-account. See eLearning’s tricks to un-delete content, see the history of a page, or what a student has done in a course (to resolve a complaint). Leave this session ready to use your admin powers to save yourself and your faculty time and energy.
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers
11:00 - 12:30 PM
Observing faculty, with an eye for providing positive impactful feedback, is essential to encourage a climate of growth. Designed specifically for course coordinators and chairs, this workshop will provide specific, measurable strategies to plan, conduct and review classroom observations. Please bring any forms currently used for observation to the session.
Facilitator: Laurie Collins
Test Drive Your Course in Canvas: Work in groups to assure that your assignments are set up clearly, your modules make sense, and discover an online active learning strategy you can use this semester. You will be on the road to success in no time!
Suggested for returning faculty.
Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers
The use of surprise and random chance activities can help with classroom management and keep students consistently engaged throughout the semester. In this hands-on workshop participants will experience and discuss several strategies to build community, encourage competition and boost attendance in order to help keep students focused and active in the learning process.
Facilitator: Dr. Yang Yu
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Giving students the power to share and collaborate on class assignments can take their work to new heights. Google Slide decks can create lasting resources that help students study your content, as well as practice their tech skills and take more ownership of their learning. But with great power comes great responsibility. In this session, learn how to share Google Slides, add videos, poll and assess students from within the slides, and allow students to contribute to your presentations.
Facilitator: Erin Nunnally
Active learning is a student-centered pedagogy, but how do you identify it in practice, and how can you measure its impact on student learning? Join us to evaluate some research-based tools that have been used to measure the various types, frequency, and impact of active learning in the face-to-fact classroom.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin
1:30 - 3:00 PM
RSVP: hsmith2@howardcc.edu
This session will provide an overview of the wealth of data available to you in HCC's InfoView. We will cover how to easily access data that can be used to learn about your courses, programs, and division. We will also discuss how the data can be leveraged for promotion projects, course success trends, and other metrics. At the end of this session, you will be able to access data in InfoView and will be able to modify the data for your own purposes.
Facilitator: Haley Smith & Deborah Greenberg
The New Gradebook in Canvas offers improved accessibility, robust data organization and filtering, and helpful grade management options. Find out how to apply an automatic late deduction policy or keep students from seeing the grades of a particular assignment until you are finished grading the entire class. Using realistic scenarios with your colleagues, you will see how the choices you make will change the way New Gradebook operates.
Facilitator: Maureen Martin
3:00 - 4:30 PM
How does HCC promote academic integrity when testing online students without requiring them to visit campus or other certified testing centers? HCC has expanded its partnership with Respondus to provide remote testing capabilities with the existing Lock Down Browser and the new Monitor, which now replaces Proctorio. In this hands-on session, you’ll gain experience using Respondus Monitor as a student, as well as learn how to set it up as the instructor. Upon completion of the session, you’ll have the tools and resources to set it up in your course and explain to students how to use the tools.
Suggested for Online Faculty.
Facilitator: Jamie Bourne
5:30 - 6:30 PM
In this session, we will try at least 4 different strategies that can be used in the very first F2F class meeting to enhance classroom community. Join us online at http://howardcc.adobeconnect.com/firstdaystrategies/ for practical, research-based information on the role of faculty-student interaction; how to introduce the course; and encourage student participation.
Facilitator: Dr. Amy Chase Martin & Mike Stein
Thursday, January 23rd
8:00 - 9:00 AM
RSVP: janderson3@howardcc.edu
The Silas Craft Collegians Program is a comprehensive academic, leadership, learning community that aims to provide transition support for students who desire the benefit of receiving smaller class sizes, mentoring, scholarship assistance, enrichment experiences, and personalized academic support. The program also provides faculty with co-curricular support aimed toward supporting program participants' academic needs in the class room. This interactive session will provide faculty who are affiliated with the Silas Craft Collegians Program an opportunity to explore ways in which the program has been restructured to support them, as well as the associated general education goals that are outlined for their selected courses.
Facilitator: Jarrell Anderson
9:00 - 10:00 AM
RSVP: lyoo@howardcc.edu
This meeting is required for FPLC facilitators. We will check in about the progress of each FPLC and discuss plans for the spring semester and the graduation & showcase (May).
Facilitator: Laura Yoo
10:00 - 1:30 PM
TBD
Facilitator: Dr. Margaret Garroway
1:00 - 3:30 PM
Teaching a hybrid in the spring or just curious about this type of course design? Interested in an introduction to this type of course design? Join us and learn how to create a face-to-face and online environment that is complementary and meaningful; learn how to get students to attend class and complete tasks – both online and face-to-face; and, finally, how to make this course design work for you!
Facilitator: Faculty Development and eLearning Staff
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Come learn about ClassCalc, a new calculator product for the phone or tablet... Imagine you just taught your students a new math concept, and during the next assessment, you want them to demonstrate their knowledge of the subject without the use of their calculators – with ClassCalc, you can control what functions students have access to during Test Mode, to lock down any function (log, sin, cos) or any calculator (graphing, scientific, matrix). One customizable calculator for all your classes. ClassCalc’s Test Mode allows teachers to lock students on their calculator devices during class and tests, preventing access to Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, calls, texts, and anything else that’s not ClassCalc. This way, students aren’t distracted by their phones during class, aren’t cheating during tests, and aren’t spending absurd amounts of money on handheld calculators.
All Math faculty are invited to attend.
Facilitator: Mike Long
3:00 - 4:00 PM
All instructors teaching MATH-132 are required to attend.
This session will provide a brief overview of the course. The majority of our time will be spent discussing our goals for this class, how the ALEKs software will be used in this class, and teaching strategies. If time permits, the investment project will be discussed.
Facilitator: Caroline Torcaso
3:30 - 5:00 PM
For CHEM 101 lab instructors.
You will meet your coordinator and other lab instructors. In addition, we will go over changes to the course shell that correspond to changes in the lab structure.
Facilitator: Roberta Brown
4:30 - 5:00 PM
Discussion of the GenEd Project Grading Focus.
Facilitator: Rehana Yusaf
4:30 - 5:30 PM
The session will cover the implementation of the Knewton alta platform in MATH-143.
Instructors who have not taught with Knewton should attend; other 143 faculty are welcome to participate.
Facilitator: Jane Wenstrom
4:30 - 6:00 PM
RSVP: chowald@howardcc.edu
Required for MATH 138 instructors.
You will meet your coordinator and other team members, as well as discuss goals and objectives in the program. In addition, there are new updates of the course shell and online grade book.
Facilitator: Carol Howald
RSVP with the course coordinators: abrown@howardcc.edu & akuhlman@howardcc.edu
Required for MATH 153 SP2020 instructors.
This session will cover the implementation of the new Wiris Online Homework System, as well as other course changes being made for the upcoming semester.
Facilitator: Andrew Brown & Adrian Kuhlman
8:15 - 9:15 PM
RSVP: ltokoly@howardcc.edu
All MATH 250 faculty are expected to attend.
We will meet and discuss activities and material that have been added to the list of resources for the course. We will talk as well about changes in the program for the coming semester.
Facilitator: Loretta Tokoly
RSVP: jpenniman@howardcc.edu
Required for instructors teaching Math in the Flexible Learning Program (Developmental Math).
Training faculty how to use Canvas and ALEKS effectively in the FLP. In addition, updates will be covered and "On Demand" Procedures will be discussed.
Facilitator: Jenny Penniman
Friday, January 24th
8:45 - 11:30 AM
Breakfast will be served in the Cafe on the Quad at 8:45am.
Convocation will begin in the Smith Theatre at 9:30 AM.
12:00 - 3:00 PM
Come for the annual Faculty Forum General meeting and OER meeting! Faculty Forum will be discussing faculty areas of interest, and Jean and Greg will be there to answer questions in an open discussion session. Lunch will be provided. OER will additionally take place where faculty will learn and give their voices to the committee’s priority areas.
Facilitator: Mari Wepprecht & Rehana Yesef
1:00 - 2:00 PM
RSVP: lvoyton@howardcc.edu
Come for the annual Faculty Forum General meeting and OER meeting! Faculty Forum will be discussing faculty areas of interest, and Jean and Greg will be there to answer questions in an open discussion session. Lunch will be provided. OER will additionally take place where faculty will learn and give their voices to the committee’s priority areas.
Facilitator: Lynn Voyton
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Online faculty must attend ONE of the online faculty meetings scheduled on January 17, 24, or 25.
We will discuss some of the big developments affecting online courses like the new online proctoring tool and the coming launch of online programs. Then we will look at the ways that we can use Canvas to identify students who may be struggling and reach out to them quickly and easily. You will learn about New Analytics and share with each other some tips and tricks for keeping online students engaged and on track.
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/369176714
Meeting ID: 369 176 714
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Facilitator: Dr. Megan Myers